y’all KNOW i go hard for those evil!aus but tbh…… caleb and fjord’s relationship has and always will be a relationship built on mutual respect and curiosity. they’re both 100% aware of and acknowledge that they’ve both got some shady stuff to work out on their own respective times and while they both want to know more they’re both playing their cards close to their chest.
i talked about what caleb gained out of their most recent interaction but that exchange of information was two-ways: now fjord has more understanding of caleb as a person as well. caleb asked him for a favor. what is that favor? when will it come? what is caleb trying to do with it? with him? he has no clue, but it’s a callback to one of the first things caleb said back when they were just starting to get to know each other in the early episodes: caleb is a man who likes to take calculated risks. in this, fjord is caleb’s calculated risk. what the potential reward is fjord has no idea. but fjord is recently familiar with the concept of taking risks for questionable and powerful rewards, and fjord’s curious to see how this risk of his pans out.
they’re both on the level with each other. they’ve got an understanding. they know that any time they want to poke and prod at powers beyond their knowledge to gain that knowledge, they’ve got a partner in crime. they’ve got someone who’s willing to pause at the edge of the abyss and peer into it together.
doesn’t mean that they’re going to jump into the abyss, of course. just that they’ve got someone else willing to test the waters and tempt disaster just to see what would happen.
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